Results/Reports
High Sierra Regatta – Pacific Coast Championships 2013
This year’s 2013 Pacific Coast Championships took place in one of the most remote and scenic venues on the west coast – Huntington Lake in the High Sierras. This year marked the 60th Anniversary for the High Sierra Regatta, hosted and run by Fresno Yacht Club volunteers. Footage from one of the Friday starts captured…
Wickford, RI Regatta Report
Thanks Skip Whyte and crew for running a delightful, down-to-earth regatta! Viperers, Wickford definitely puts on a worthy event. Five Vipers made it out, all regional boats. Despite being unusually becalmed on Sunday, we got off four good races on Saturday in 8-12knots. The water was just short of flat, with tidal currents and land-influenced…
Twenty One Vipers at Marblehead Race Week
Written by Justin Scott Marblehead Race Week is the “homecoming” regatta of the Viper circuit. The class association was born in the upstairs bar at Maddys sail loft in Marblehead five years ago and that gathering of the original half dozen early Viper owners has grown into a national class of well over 100 boats. Marblehead Race Week is where…
The Tour hits the mountain stage.
Written by Justin Scott “The profile of the stage suggested it would suit strong climbers and cunning, powerful and daring descenders” – Tour De France Progress Report July 11th 2009. We were slumped exhausted in our Viper communal house at Newport after the first day of racing, watching stage 8 of the Tour De France, and the…
Viper Long Island Sound Regatta
Written by Justin Scott This was lots of fun over the weekend. Great little regatta. Represents everything that owning a Viper stands for. Friendly gathering. Good Racing. Forty bucks. Beer and burgers on the yacht club lawn on Saturday afternoon after racing. Race Committee that fired off four great races on Saturday afternoon and two…
2009 Coral Reef Cup Report, Results and Photos
Written by Dan Tucker Viper 640 racing in the Coral Reef Cup ended about six hours ago, and I’m still jazzed! Today was the most fun I’ve sailing while racing so badly. Twelve Viper 640’s turned up at the invitation of the Coral Reef Yacht Club for three days of racing in one of the…
2008 Carolina Keelboat One Design Report
Written by Jason Weisberg – USA82 The weekend of November 7th 8 Vipers gathered from north and South to compete at the Lake Norman YC Carolina Keel One Design regatta. The sailors could not have asked for a more beautiful setting. The conditions on the first day were somewhat shifty but fair while we…